Quotes About Leadership

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

What frustrates me more than anything is that I push on so far and people become complacent, lose that bit of edge, and it's very difficult to keep driving people on. That's probably the greatest fault of mine: I expect everybody to be like me.

You look at the top guys at each position and they all help their teams win more than anything - scoring, assists, whatever.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

I played a very background role in terms of trying to get the environment together but Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss have done a great job.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

Being a Horseman isn't something you put on in the morning and take off at night. It's a state of mind. It's excelling to the best of your ability. It's four individuals thinking singularly, acting collectively.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

Moses is our true founding father.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Get there first with the most.

One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.

The most beautiful moments of my career were under Manuel Pellegrini in Malaga, where we achieved big things and we made Malaga's name known around Europe.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.